Las emergencias constitucionales no regladas o insuficientemente regladas: una aproximación teórico-práctica

Together with the usual legal disputes, dealt with through the standard legal instruments, certain situations sometimes arise which threaten the continuity of the constitutional order and require the application of extraordinary measures. These are scenarios that imply a greater concentration of pow...

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Main Author: Fernández de Casadevante Mayordomo, Pablo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=8187286
Source:Teoría y realidad constitucional, ISSN 1139-5583, Nº 48, 2021, pags. 495-524
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Las emergencias constitucionales no regladas o insuficientemente regladas: una aproximación teórico-práctica
Summary: Together with the usual legal disputes, dealt with through the standard legal instruments, certain situations sometimes arise which threaten the continuity of the constitutional order and require the application of extraordinary measures. These are scenarios that imply a greater concentration of power but still require respect for certain basic legal premises in order to prevent authoritarian behaviours. Since non-regulated or insufficiently regulated emergencies are the most extreme example of this, in the first part of the paper we will see that, even in these cases of true exception, there are sufficient legal criteria to confront danger with guarantees. We will then look at the way in which Spanish public authorities have applied such parameters with clearly positive outcomes and others that have been rather controversial. Crucial in the latter respect is the recent decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court, which has rightly established the partial unconstitutionality of Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, declaring a state of alarm against COVID-19. Because a fundamental rights suspension cannot be accepted under this figure, a state of emergency should have been activated, as it requires parliamentary permission prior to the adoption of such measures.

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